Music technology group offering distribution, marketing and publishing infrastructure for independent artists and labels. Its community now represents 200K independent artists and labels across 45 countries, with artists on the platform growing 25% in the last month. These artists have collectively crossed 3 billion streams across global streaming platforms. Seed round of an undisclosed amount led by Ahdritz Capital, along with SumoSan, 10X Global, and Marigold Capital. Delhi based, founded in Apr 2022. Founder Rohan (Amity Univ. '15) co-founded Nesho Recycling World (batteries, electronics, plastics) in 2019.

AI Product Manager for software teams, using agentic architectures to help decide what software to build. With AI, the bottleneck for product teams has shifted from execution to deciding what to build. The product manager evaluates ideas for customer value, feasibility, cost, risk and business impact, before dev begins. Early adoption in the US, with government agencies and county-level tech teams. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Palo Alto based, founded in Feb 2025. Founders: CEO Yash (Hindu College '20; Great Lakes '21; Narsee Monjee '24) was a data scientist at MathCo; Ashrey (Boston University '20) was a management consultant at Modular Startups in Boston.

Yet to launch AI assistant that observes, learns and acts, completing tasks across workplace tools without commands. "Most AI tools wait for commands. Sonatic anticipates your needs. Instead of typing prompts or pushing buttons, your apps act like agents: they observe your context, generate the right tasks, and execute them on your behalf." Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, led by a16z Speedrun as part of the SR005 cohort. Angels in the round from Nvidia, OpenAI, and Meta SuperIntelligence Labs. SF based, founded in Jan 2025. CEO Kinjal is a Cornell drop-out (started in 2023). He was an EIR at Entrepreneur First.

Preventive health and longevity focused startup which will launch a physician-managed preventive health program called 150, later this year, with 300-biomarker panels. The company is also developing longevity-focused supplements and a health data platform tailored to South Asian populations. $2.6M round. Other investors in the round: Jayanti Reddy (designer). Singapore and Hyderabad based. Founder Ajay (University of Leeds '08; University of Warwick '09) is ex-Google (five years) was Senior Director of Product for the maps product at Grab. In 2020 he co-founded NextBillion.ai (custom mapping and location intelligence) which was acquired by US based Velocitor Solutions.

SaaS for football/soccer academies. Helps reduce admin by 75% and improve athlete retention through data driven engagement and performance tracking tools. Serves 14 global academies (across India, MENA, Nepal, US), with 8 paid US pilots. Plans to onboard 100 academies in a year with a targeted $1M in annualised revenue. $100K seed round. Kerala based, founded in Jun 2019. The three founders set up IT services firm Roninaks Ventures. CEO Nihal (Mahatma Gandhi Univ. '17; IIM Bangalore '23) was CEO at Roninaks; Swathy (SCMS '17; IIM Bangalore '23) was Chief Sales Marketing Officer; Nagaraj (SCMS '17; T A Pai Management Institute '22) was a co-founder.

AI companion named Doro, which helps 3-10 year old children build their confidence and improve speaking skills. Conventional speech models struggle with children's speech because of differences in rhythm and pacing. The company has developed VedAnsh-v1, a proprietary speech-to-text and voice activity detection system designed for kids' voices. 500K downloads. $1.5M seed round led by IndiaQuotient, with the participation of General Catalyst. Gurgaon based, founded in Aug 2025. Founders: Shivam (IIT Madras '17) was Head of Product at Probo, starting out as a PM at Paytm and Urban Company; Siddhant (NIT Kurukshetra '15) was an engineer at Probo and technology associate at Goldman Sachs.

Icertis veterans have come together to build this enterprise AI platform which detects and recovers revenue and procurement leakages. $7.55M seed round. This covers missed commercial obligations, supplier rebate losses, pricing inconsistencies, and settlement-related gaps. Seattle based with engineering in Pune. Founded in Feb 2026. CEO Anand was CRO at Icertis for 14 years; CPO Niranjan was EVP - Product at Icertis for 12 years; co-founder Patrick was Founder & CEO of outsourcing firm Bolton Remote.

Decision intelligence platform for wealth advisors and RIAs, which helps them monitor large volumes of clients' portfolios, identify which portfolios require attention and determine actions aligned with each client's investment mandate. Paying clients across the US, Singapore, India. $2.2M seed round. Other investors in the round include iOPEX Technologies, angel investors Amit Sheth and Bhavin Manek. New York based, founded in Mar 2024. Founders: CEO Keyur (Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University '03; IISc '06) is ex-Meta (machine learning engineer); Embibe (Chief Data Scientist) and McKinsey (Principal Data Scientist); CTO Peeyush (IIT Kharagpur '06) was CTO at Verloop (customer support automation) and is ex-IndiaVidual Learning, Quikr, Common Floor. He started out as a technical delivery manager at British Telecom.

Robotics for the retail industry. Its flagship product, RobAd, is an in-store marketing device designed for in-store promotions in supermarkets for CPG brands, and for retailers. Used by over twenty brands incuding Britannia. ₹1CR seed round. Founded in Oct 2020, Thrissur based. Founders: CEO Christo Varghese (APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University '20) started out of college; CTO Rahul VIncent (also APJ '20) joined after a year as Quality Assurance Engineer at Wipro; Christo Kollannur (Jyothi Engineering College '20) started out of college; Bonsto (APJ '20) joined after a year as Mechanical Design Engineer at Packmen Machineries.

Soon to launch AI-native EdTech platform for K-12 students and competitive exam prep including JEE and NEET. The company's AI companion will understand a student's level and adapts teaching in real time. ₹30CR (~$3.2M) pre-seed round led by BEENEXT, along with Eximius and Antler. Founded in April 2026, Bangalore based. Founder & CEO Ravneet (IIT Hyderabad '14) was Director of Technology at Vedantu (~four years) before co-founding FC.ONE, automating back office tasks for sports businesses, clubs and academies.